Homeschool Companion

What Does God Want Me to Do Today? Is the title of our devotion. During Arts-n-Crafts, we make a Red, Yellow, and Green Light device to help us stay on task. We also do a home safety inspection. In the Curriculum segment, we discuss the curriculum products we would need for Traditional (School-at-Home) homeschooling. Next, we begin our interview with Misty Phillip, author of The Trojan Horse of th...

Let’s go on a prayer walk. While we are on our walk, we can make it a walk of gratitude and begin going through the alphabet. “God, I’m thankful for air.” “God, I’m thankful for the blue sky.” During Arts-n-Crafts, we imagine how we can pray indoors if the weather is bad. During Curriculum Corner, we look at the expenses for the homeschooling program, Classical Conversations. Next, we conclude our...

What Can God Do? Of course, we believe that He can do anything He wants to do; He is sovereign. But why doesn’t He? For our Arts-n-Crafts section, we plant seeds and study Matthew 17:20 about the mustard seed. During Curriculum Corner, begin the discussion of what types of curriculum products you need to obtain to do the type of homeschooling you want to do. Then we go to our interview with Bonnie...

Have you ever thought how God has given us the gift of “Time?” During Arts-n-Crafts we discuss integrating Art and Bible. Next, we discuss the world view we want for our children. Then to our interview with Jannah Scott about her passion of intercessory prayer for our nation. Her book, Standing on the Wall, focuses on the prayers that each person can pray as we seek healing for our nation. These p...

What Is the Fear of the Lord? Today, you will understand what it means to fear the Lord. During Arts-n-Crafts, we put various objects on a tray, let our children look at it for a few minutes, then cover the tray and see how many items they can remember. During Curriculum Corner, we conclude our review of Coalition for Responsible Home Education. Next, we went to our interview with Jeff Kolkmann, a...

What If I Don’t Know What to Pray? If you are just beginning your relationship with Jesus, you might not know what to pray. Begin simply, thank Him, listen, read scripture, and pray by opening your mind to the Holy Spirit. Then ask Him for His Help. To conclude, we begin our interview with Jeff Kolkmann, who is an Olympics superfan. It started the day his father brought home a television set when...

In our devotional, we explore the question: How is singing like praying? When you sing scripture, praise songs, or hymns, you are lifting your heart in prayer through music. Next, during Arts-n-Crafts, we listened to the sounds of nature and created our own melodies to accompany scripture. Following that, in the segment Questions Parents Ask, we interviewed Dr. Neil Nedley, President of Weimar Uni...

Today’s devotional topic is: What’s a Prayer Buddy? For Arts-n-Crafts, we focus on team-building activities—for example, helping a friend complete pushup. In Curriculum Corner, we highlight the website CRHE.org (Coalition for Responsible Home Education). Next, we feature an interview with Dr. Sylvan Lashley and Florretta Mitchell. Dr. Sylvan A. Lashley, a seasoned leader and visionary, is CEO/Pres...

Have you ever thought how God has given us the gift of “Time?” During Arts-n-Crafts we discuss integrating Art and Bible. Next, we discuss the world view we want for our children. Then to our interview with Jannah Scott about her passion of intercessory prayer for our nation. Her book, Standing on the Wall, focuses on the prayers that each person can pray as we seek healing for our nation. These p...

Can I Trust God? Unfortunately, we spend a good deal of our lives not trusting God. During Arts-n-Crafts, we look at a coin and the phrase “In God We Trust,” and we also talk about making bread and how yeast works. Then we look at our devotional, 52 Weekly Devotions on Family Prayer, and examine how we could turn it into a Bible/Science curriculum. Next, we conclude our interview with Pastor Frank...

Can God Help Me with Bullies? is the title of today’s devotion. What do you think? So, during Arts-n-Crafts, we build up our muscles, write about our feelings, and learn how to replace mean thoughts. Our interview today is with Frank Yapp, Pastor of the Bathany Seventh-day Adventist Church. He is a military veteran who has served God for more than 43 years. His book All That Remains is about his s...

What Prayers Are in the Bible? We examine as many of the Bible prayers as possible for today’s devotion. Next, we illustrate Psalms 23. During Curriculum Corner, we discuss the many forms of assessment, noting that simply observing what your child is doing is assessment. Finally, we conclude our interview with Dr. Michael Coleman. He has authored two books. The first, Reflections on Issues in Musi...

Is a Short Prayer OK? is the title of today’s devotion. I believe God hears the yearning of our hearts even before the words are spoken. Moving into Arts-n-Crafts, we do a timer activity and learn SOS in Morse Code. Afterwards, we continue our discussion in Curriculum Corner about developing our own curriculum and including a mixture of media resources. Following this, we begin our interview with...

If you were to live for 100 years, what would you want to have accomplished? During Arts-n-Crafts you will make a habitat using large emptied soda bottles. During Curriculum Corner we are reminded again that the word “curriculum” means the path. Finally, we go to our interview with Dr. June Hunt. And discuss the topic of depression. Are you or your loved one suffering from depression? It is certai...

How Does Forgiveness Help Me? We illustrate this with an object lesson using two tubes—one clogged and one clear—to show how forgiveness opens the way for God’s love to flow freely through us. During Curriculum Corner, we recommend creating a template for your curriculum so you don’t have to reinvent one each time you develop a new unit study. Then we conclude our interview with Pastor David Kline...

How Does God Help Me Solve Problems? In Arts‑n‑Crafts, we explore how using different lenses to look at everyday objects can change what we see—and how, in the same way, we can be at peace because God knows the end from the beginning. During Curriculum Corner, we suggest creating a timeline to guide your curriculum writing. Then we begin our interview with Pastor David Klinedinst, MDiv, director o...

How Can I Stop My Anger? During Curriculum Corner, we look at developing unit studies and how an anchor assignment fits naturally within them. Then we conclude our interview with Yohanna Santana, who shares some beautiful free resources. Each year, Christian Record Services, Inc. (dba Christian Record Services for the Blind) impacts thousands of lives through services provided at no cost. Anyone w...

Can God Help Me Stop Worrying? Our devotion reminds us that when God is our leader, we can trust that He will guide us safely home. We continue our conversation about writing your own curriculum—today focusing on identifying the spine, or anchor, of your topic. Then, in our interview with Yohanna Santana, we learn how Christian Record Services for the Blind seeks to value the blind and low‑vision...

Today’s devotion is titled “Dream On.” And then we go fishing with a magnet. We make fishing poles and tie a magnet on the line for the hook. We conclude our conversation with Sam Sorbo who believes our children deserve better than to be institutionalized in an education system developed during the Industrial Age. School shootings, homework, and failing grades are all on the rise. Even school admi...

How Do I Know God’s Will? This was the focus of today’s devotion, where we explored ways to seek and understand God’s guidance. During Arts‑n‑Crafts, we played a guessing game using envelopes, encouraging creativity and fun. In our curriculum development segment, we emphasized the importance of considering each child’s interests when shaping lessons. Finally, we continued our interview with Dr. Le...

How Strong Is God? We reflected on God’s incredible strength and power during our devotional time. For Arts‑n‑Crafts, we hiked to a high vantage point to appreciate the view, then built towers together as a hands‑on activity. In Curriculum Corner, we continued writing our own curriculum and discussed the importance of tailoring lessons to each child’s needs. Next, we began our interview with Dr. L...

Why does God let people do bad things? We explored this difficult question by discussing how, in a world influenced by sin and Satan, people are free to make their own choices—even when those choices are harmful. To illustrate the impact of sin, we filled a water balloon to the bursting point, showing how sin builds up until it causes damage. During Curriculum Corner, we focused on writing clear l...

When should I pray for someone else? That question begins today’s devotion. In Arts‑n‑Crafts, we played Eye Spy and made sympathy bandage notes. During Curriculum Corner, we started exploring how to write our own curriculum. Our guest was Doug Batchelor from Amazing Facts, the president of Amazing Facts and senior pastor of Granite Bay Church in California. He is known for his dramatic conversion—...

John 18:4-5, reminds us that God calls himself, “I Am”. After the devotion we go to Arts-n-Crafts we make nature prints. Then we segue to our interview with Sam Sorbo. For some of us, education was an uncomfortable process of sitting in stifling classrooms, listening to tedious lectures, struggling over stressful exams, and feeling like we were wasting our time and energy. There were class clowns,...

Our Fish Feathers devotional invites us to imagine the beauty of God’s creativity by blending two vivid images from nature—fish of the sea and birds of the air. It reminds us that the same Creator who designed scales to shimmer underwater and feathers to glide through the sky also fashioned each of us with care and intention. During our interview with Rick Altizer, he shares powerful stories from...